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The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Sitter scammed before first day

An Evans woman looking for a baby-sitting job said someone tried to scam her.

The 20-year-old woman said she met a man who identified himself as James C. Martins while searching on www.SitterCity.com. She and the man were negotiating a contract for her to baby-sit his 2-year-old daughter.

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Thieves pay bills with Evans man’s money

An Evans man called authorities Thursday after discovering more than $8,000 missing from his bank account.

The 52-year-old man said he checked his bank balance and found no money in the account. While looking at the account transaction history, the man found 38 unauthorized charges to multiple companies that he has no accounts with and in names other than his.

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Man offers a 4-year-old ride

An Appling woman said Monday that a suspicious man driving around her neighborhood offered her 4-year-old daughter a ride.

The woman said she was waiting for the school bus with her daughter at about 8:30 a.m., when she saw a deputy patrol car pass by. A 4-door light blue Chrysler New Yorker was following it. A little while later, the patrol car came back in the opposite direction with the Chrysler still following.

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Teen assaulted, robbed of cash

A teen called police early Wednesday and said he was assaulted and robbed while walking along a Martinez road.

The 17-year-old said he was skateboarding on Wheeler Road near the entrance of Adventure Crossing about midnight Tuesday headed for the Steak and Shake restaurant on Jimmie Dyess Parkway. When he got tired of boarding, he decided to walk.

A Columbia County Grand Jury indicted a man arrested last month accused of having drugs at West Lake Country Club.

Edilberto Morales Diaz, 35, is the former manager of the Men’s Grille at the club and was arrested Sept. 15 after authorities found 59 methamphetamine in his truck and another 15 grams in his office at the club.

A grand jury indicted Diaz on trafficking methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, according to court documents released Friday.

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Woman claims harassment

A Martinez woman called authorities Monday after she received the second of two harassing letters.

The woman said she received a letter on Dec. 17 that said she’d better watch herself because the author of the letter knows she is seeing a married man. The letter was composed from cutout letters from printed material glued to a piece of paper. The envelope was addressed by hand.